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...Date: October 15, 2008
TO: Kai Mueller
FROM: Lin Chen
DATE: April 1998
SUBJECT: NES AG – Gifting in China
NES AG’s problem is that needs approval to become a holding company in China. However, its code of ethics conflicts with the local custom of gifting to as a way of achieving certain outcomes. The problem in the short term is that the company needs to obtain the approval within a month. In the long term, not getting the approval would hurt shareholders or, if NES AG gives gifts to officials, it will violate NES’s ethical code.
The strengths of the company are that it is established and experienced in China with a strong reputation for its high technology expertise, quality, and professional management. The weaknesses are the absence of license to conduct business directly as a holding company, inability to manage workforce, lack of control over some management aspects. Employees may not be performing well knowing they cannot be fired and government restrictions on the office currently threaten the company’s flexibility and impair future planning and expansions. Gaining holding company status would give NES AG more opportunities, flexibility and lower its operational risk in China.
Knowing that a practice does not comply with company’s standards, I believe that it would be in the company’s stakeholders’ best interest to give the gifts to the officials. While reputation is definitely important, the...

...Danielle Snead
September 17, 2012
Chapter 4 Review Questions
1. Tai was overjoyed when she learned that she would be promoted to a position with higher responsibility and pay. However, even before hearing about the promotion, she believed that the regional manager who made the promotion decision was fair-minded. Use the emotions, attitudes, and behavior model to explain how Tai's emotions and beliefs influence her positive feelings towards the regional manager.
Tia felt a since of fulfillment. She felt as though she was being valued as an employee and her hard work paid off in getting a promotion. The manager most likely realized her great work ethics and her leadership skills. She probably didn’t let external factors interfere with her work and showed a positive attitude through each situation.
2. Explain how an employee's attitudes might be affected by cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance occurs when we perceive an inconsistency between our beliefs, feelings, and behavior. When this inconsistency violets our self-concept, it generates emotions that motivate us to change one or more of these elements. For example, you agreed to accept a foreign posting, even though it didn’t interest you, because you believed it might be necessary for promotion into senior management. However, you later learn that many people become senior managers in the firm without spending any time on foreign assignment. In this situation you will most likely experience...

...Indeed, New England and the Chesapeake regions both had settlers of English descent; by the 1700's the developments of these sodalities had sculptured them into two distinct societies.
The premier reason for the differentiation of the evolvement was primarily due to the motives for the foundations of these regions. The Virginia Company of London received a charter from King James I of England to establish Jamestown in 1607 in the New World as a profit-making venture. Like most joint stock companies, the Virginia Company was designed to last for a few years dedicated to the proposition that all stockholders should receive dividends adequate for their investments. Conversely, New England's motives for its foundation arose for religious purposes, During the Protestant Reformation in England, Puritans driven by reforms of John Calvin, Calvinism, broke their ties with the Roman Catholic Church and formed the Church of England endowed in English Christianity. King James I later harassed extreme Puritans, Separatists, because he feared defiance as their political leader. Furthermore in fear of persecution they fled to Holland where eventually after ensuing years of poverty and "Dutchification" of their children Separatists negotiated a deal with Virginia Co. to travel to the New World. These extremists referred to themselves as the "Purest of Puritans", and the later Puritans who came about in the 1630's Great Migration wanted to establish a "city upon a hill" as James...

...After the Protestant Reformation the New World was being quickly being uncovered. England was quick to claim its land. Two groups in particular were important to the jumpstart of America. These areas were Chesapeake Bay and New England. These two regions began with the same English origin, but by the 1700’s they were divided into two completely different societies; New England, being the more successful Colony. The split in the new world was because of the social, economic and religious differences between New England and Chesapeake Bay.
In 1607 the first colony of the Chesapeake region was colonized. Under the rule of King James I, the English Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia was formed. Eventually the Chesapeake Bay consisted of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware. Men ranging from ages 14-50 began immigrating to Virginia, in search of economic ventures (Document C). During the early years of the Jamestown Colony, the conditions of the Chesapeake Bay were brutal, many died of starvation, the cold and serious conflicts with the Indians. In this case the Powhatan Indians. Men from England who would reach fifty years old were considered lucky. The winters were called “Starving time” because of the lack of food and bitter cold that merely killed all the settlers (Document F). The Immigration to the New England Colonies was for more Religious Reasons. The base of this Region is on the emphasis on Puritanism. (Document A). Some may call them “religious bastards,”...

...the AFPFL triumphed. In 1958 the AFPFL split into two factions; with a breakdown of order threatening, Premier U Nu invited General Ne Win, head of the army, to take over the government (Oct., 1958). After the 1960 elections, which were won by U Nu's faction, civilian government was restored. However, as rebellions among the minorities flared and opposition to U Nu's plan to make Buddhism the state religion mounted, conditions deteriorated rapidly.
In Mar., 1962,Ne Win staged a military coup, discarded the constitution, and established a Revolutionary Council, made up of military leaders who ruled by decree. While the federal structure was retained, a hierarchy of workers' and peasants' councils was created. A new party, the Myanmar Socialist Program party, was made the only legal political organization. The Revolutionary Council fully nationalized the industrial and commercial sectors of the economy and imposed a policy of international isolation.
Insurgency became a major problem of the Ne Win regime. Pro-Chinese Communist rebels—the “White Flag” Communists—were active in the northern part of the country, where, from 1967 on, they received aid from Communist China; the Chinese established links with the Shan and Kachin insurgents as well. The deposed U Nu, who managed to leave Myanmar in 1969, also used minority rebels to organize an anti–Ne Win movement among the Shans, Karens, and others in the east....

...Table of Contents
1. Claritas PRIZM NE Segments 2
1.1 Money &amp; Brains 2
1.2 Big City Blues: 2
1.3 Winner’s Circle 3
1.4 Urban Achievers 3
1.5 Big Fish, Small Pond 3
2. References 3
Claritas PRIZM NE Segments
Money &amp; Brains
This segment belongs to the Urban Uptown social group (U1) that means these are nation’s wealthiest consumers. They have population of high-income group with advanced degrees and sophisticated taste. Members of this social group tend to be upscale married couples between the ages of 45-64 with few children and live in fashionable homes. They constitute White, Asian, Hispanic and Mix ethnicity upscale couples. They spend heavily on computers and other technology, shops at exclusive stores and drive imported luxury vehicles1.
Big City Blues:
This segment belongs to the Urban Cores (U3) social group and characterized by low incomes, modest education, rental apartments and uncertain jobs1. They represent one of the least affluent social groups. In the nation with more than 45 % of Latino, this segment is concentrated with multi ethnic low-income group consist of Asian and African-American households with older inner-city apartments. Their lifestyle and media traits include shopping at Duane Reade, going to soccer games, watching Univision and using budget cars. Age range: &lt;45. Lower to Mid-scale.
Winner’s Circle
They belong to Elite Suburbs social group (S1) and are...